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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy
Flower, Men, Looks
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.471, e-artnow

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

Leo Tolstoy
Art, Communication, Mean
"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Leo Tolstoy
Talking, Giving, Spokes

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Leo Tolstoy
Art, Real, Separation
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8118, e-artnow

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Leo Tolstoy
Inspirational, Life, Dream

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

Leo Tolstoy
Nurse, India, World
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.779, e-artnow

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

Leo Tolstoy
Atheism, Causes, Agnosticism

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Leo Tolstoy
Love, Life, Children

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

Leo Tolstoy
Live For Others, Life Is, Life Happiness
Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Family Happiness and Other Stories”, p.12, Courier Corporation

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, Compassion, Diversity

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Leo Tolstoy
Feelings, Theatre, Actors

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

Leo Tolstoy
Hands, Opposites, Glasses
LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

Leo Tolstoy
Joy, Gold, Saws
Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.262, Oxford Paperbacks

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, Sacred, Springtime
graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1917). “The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi”

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

Leo Tolstoy
Darkness, Clue, Fallen
Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.383, 谷月社

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

Leo Tolstoy
War, Lying, Games
Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Leo Tolstoy
Hands, Poor

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Leo Tolstoy
Funny, Sloth, Brain
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.341, e-artnow

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

Leo Tolstoy
Space, Long, Effort
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.610, e-artnow

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

Leo Tolstoy
Work, Welfare, Source
Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.171, The Floating Press

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

Leo Tolstoy
School, People, Done
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.3394, e-artnow

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

Leo Tolstoy
Pain, Sea, Despair
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.3384, e-artnow

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Leo Tolstoy
Unhappy, Use, World
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.547, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

Leo Tolstoy
Heart, Joy, Possession
Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.25, Courier Corporation

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

Leo Tolstoy
Taken, Long, Suffering

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